Thomas Paine Quotes
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must understand the fatigue of supporting it.
Reason obeys itself; ignorance submits to what is dictated to it.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Man cannot make or invent or contrive principles. He can only discover them and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
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